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Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860 : Empathetic Histories.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781350016743
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Women Writers and the Nation's Past 1790-1860DDC classification:
  • 941.0701
LOC classification:
  • PR111 .S666 2019
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Empathetic Histories: English Women Writers and the Nation's Past, 1790-1860 -- Part 1: The Gender of Whig Historiography -- 1. The Gender of Whig Historiography -- 2. Marie Antoinette, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Emergence of Empathetic History -- 3. Jane Austen, Mary Stuart and the Jacobite H istory of England -- Part 2: The Queen Caroline 'Affair' -- 4. Caroline of Brunswick as Anne Boleyn: Dissenting Women Writers and Historical 'Memoir' -- 5. The 'Acquittal' of Queen Caroline: Mary Hays's Memoirs of Queens as Political Dissent -- Part 3: Stuart History as Empathetic History -- 6. Agnes Strickland's Mary Beatrice of Modena and the Politics of 1688 -- 7. Calendaring as Empathetic History: Mary Anne Everett Green and the Letters of Henrietta Maria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Empathetic Histories: English Women Writers and the Nation's Past, 1790-1860 -- Part 1: The Gender of Whig Historiography -- 1. The Gender of Whig Historiography -- 2. Marie Antoinette, Mary Wollstonecraft and the Emergence of Empathetic History -- 3. Jane Austen, Mary Stuart and the Jacobite H istory of England -- Part 2: The Queen Caroline 'Affair' -- 4. Caroline of Brunswick as Anne Boleyn: Dissenting Women Writers and Historical 'Memoir' -- 5. The 'Acquittal' of Queen Caroline: Mary Hays's Memoirs of Queens as Political Dissent -- Part 3: Stuart History as Empathetic History -- 6. Agnes Strickland's Mary Beatrice of Modena and the Politics of 1688 -- 7. Calendaring as Empathetic History: Mary Anne Everett Green and the Letters of Henrietta Maria -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

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